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Buddha pays special attention to the ways how to cope with the
upsetting course of life, which is volatile and filled with pain.

The way to perfection is reaching the ultimate truth and moral

excellence. Following the eternal law of existence means going
along the path of ethics. In Buddhism, as in the other religions

and in the wisdom of philosophers, there are messages that
should guide us in the right direction to make the world a better

place. The creation and recognition of the whole will provide the
new platform with improved values and substance.

Buddhism unites morality and knowledge.

In the pursuit for the highest truth, we have to get to know
ourselves first and spread knowledge selflessly to the society.

Plato (424-347 BCE) was the founder of the first Academy in
Athens that worked for nine centuries. Plato developed

philosophical methods that became the base of the philosophical

thought today. He says there is general and necessary truth that
has absolute significance. In his teaching about the being, he

thinks that the world that is available to our senses and we
consider objectively real is not the way it seems to us. In fact,

that world is deceptive, unreal, illusionary. The objects and
occurrences of our senses are fleeting, transient and imperfect.

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